They said he was so evil, he killed his mother in conception, and that he practiced live sacrifice and blood rituals – but it was all puff and abstraction, and those esoteric texts were never meant to be taken literally. They said she had taken a vow of eternal silence, but it was only a vow of poverty – she just preferred to read rather than talk.
It wasn’t an obvious match – he followed a hermetic, monistic, aesthetic creed while hers was a hermitic, monastic, ascetic philosophy. Still, they found happiness together – he watered the geraniums and she dried them, and together they dusted the bookshelves and counted the stars.
Ms Tanah Chook was heard to remark,
Upon the 30th of June, 2010 at 8:22 am,
It’s so lovely to see how this piece took formation. Not necessarily what I expected, but a beautiful piece indeed.